Boone Spooner is a Producer, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, Drummer and Songwriter living in San Francisco, CA. His studio Soundarts is located in the Mission district.

Born January 3rd 1979 to Bill "Sputnik" Spooner (Lead guitarist and main songwriter of the Tubes) and Cindi Osborn (Lead dancer for the Tubes) Boone was always surrounded by music. It turns out that babies make great living dolls - and that it was pretty fun to dress up your baby and put guitars and drumsticks on their laps (as the picture shows) because they would actually hold on! It wasnt long before Boone became so used to this that it would feel weird not to have a guitar, mini drumset or cool sunglasses on. This was the beginning of his obsession with music.

Throughout preschool, kindergarten and grade school Boone would learn to play the drums - mentored by Prairie Prince (drummer for the Tubes). Prairie gave Boone one of his first drumsets, and would surprise him with birthday gifts like crash cymbals, drumsticks and snare drums. His first band played his Fifth grade graduation as the students walked down the isle, smiling and laughing. In middle school Boone would form "YouthinAsia" a rock band intent on droney rock music, something akin to Nirvana without the agnst.

YouthinAsia would eventually breakup and reform as "Essential Tides" a three piece that did intellectual power-pop. They would record with Joe Satrianis drummer Jeff Campitelli and play Berekeley Square a few times before they broke up.

Later in high-school Boone learned to play guitar, and would completely ignore his fathers advice, teaching himself to play Beatles tunes from a well worn book. He then was brought in with "Simple" a Marin based "super group" put together by David Jonelis . Simple made a small tour of California, playing the Viper Room and the Martini Lounge in LA.

At college in Santa Barbara Boone joined a series of bands including, Gravity Willing, Orange Glow, VaronSpooner, Shades of Day and Thriving Ivory. It was here that he first started studying Engineering and Recording.

Upon moving to the Bay Area Boone would work at and manage Sparks studio in Emeryville, work with Pyramind Labs in SF and build Studio Hibiki with them.

He would then go on to manage SF Soundworks and work with many major label artists. At Soundworks he would learn how to run an SSL 9000j, a Studer 827 and numerous other outboard items, giving him a vast well of knowledge to draw from.

The Gear List

CONSOLE
Euphonix CSII 56 input Analog Console

RECORDING
Pro Tools HD3 Accel
Pro Tools HD3 Process
Mac G5 Dual 2ghz
Magma Expansion Chasis with Powerbook G4 (2)
2 - Apogee Rosetta 800 96k convertors (w/ x-card)
1 - Apogee Rosetta AD16
Digidesign 192 Interface
Digidesign 96 i/o convertors
Digidesign 002
Digidesign Mbox PRO

PREAMPS
Rupert Neve Design 5012 Portico (2 channel)
Universal Audio 2610 tube pre (2 channel)
4 - Digidesign 8 ch. Preamp
Great River NV1 mono
Focusrite 428 with 192 i/o
Chameleon 7602 Neve Preamp

MICROPHONES
Lawson L47 MkII (tube)
Lawson L251 (tube)
Soundelux U95 (tube)
Microtech Gefell M71 (matched pair)
Neumann TLM 127
Fat Head Ribbon Mics (2) Matched pair
Naked Eye Ribbon Mic
Electroharmonix Ribbon Mic
AKG 451 (matched pair)
AKG 414 (matched pair)
Sennheiser MD421 II (3)
Audio Technica 4033
EV RE20
Audix D6
Audix i5
GT-55
Shure SM57

OUTBOARD
Crane Song Trakker compressor
Empirical Labs Distressor EL8x (2)
FMR Audio RNC1773 compressor
Sansamp PSA 110
Line 6 DL4
Lexicon PCM70
2 - Yamaha SPX 90 ii
Composer Pro

PLUG-INS
Plugins Include: * Waves 5 Platinum Bundle * URS N and A series EQ * Bomb Factory 1176 * Bomb Factory LA3A * Echo Farm by Line6 * Autotune by Antares * Amplitude and AmpFarm * Reverb 1 by Digidesign * Bomb Factory EQH-2 * Digidesign Revibe * Digidesign Synchronic * Bomb Factory LA-2A * Soundreplacer by Digidesign * FilterBank by McDSP * H949 Harmonizer by Eventide * MC2000, 3000 by McDSP * MDW High-Res Parametric EQ by Massenburg DesignWorks * Oxford OXF-R3 EQ by Sony * Slightly Rude Compressorª by Bomb Factory * Smack! ª by Digidesign * SoundBlender* by SoundToys * Speed** by SoundToys * Crystallizer by Soundtoys * Tremolator by Soundtoys * Pitchdoctor by Soundtoys * Filterfreak by Soundtoys * PurePitch by Soundtoys * TL Space by Trillium Lane Labs * T-Racks Mastering Pack

MONITORS
Yamaha NS-10M
Genelec 1030a
Event 20/20 bas
Tannoy PS110 Subwoofer
Yamaha ps2200 Power Amps

GUITARS
Paul Reed Smith CE 22
Fender Stratocaster - Eric Clapton model
Gibson Les Paul (1974 custom)
Martin 0001
Warwick Fortress bass
Yamaha AEX 500
Taylor 412 ce Acoustic

OTHER STUFF
Korg ER1 drum machine
Rogers Vintage Drumset
Musicman RD110
Univox Rhythm Ace FR7M
Line 6 pod XT
VHT Pitbull 50/50 guitar amp
Hohner Bass Harmonica
LP Cosmic Percussion Congas